mm: fix null-ptr-deref in kswapd_is_running()

kswapd_run/stop() will set pgdat->kswapd to NULL, which could race with
kswapd_is_running() in kcompactd(),

kswapd_run/stop()                       kcompactd()
                                          kswapd_is_running()
  pgdat->kswapd // error or nomal ptr
                                          verify pgdat->kswapd
                                            // load non-NULL
pgdat->kswapd
  pgdat->kswapd = NULL
                                          task_is_running(pgdat->kswapd)
                                            // Null pointer derefence

KASAN reports the null-ptr-deref shown below,

  vmscan: Failed to start kswapd on node 0
  ...
  BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in kcompactd+0x440/0x504
  Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000024 by task kcompactd0/37

  CPU: 0 PID: 37 Comm: kcompactd0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE     5.10.60 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x394
   show_stack+0x34/0x4c
   dump_stack+0x158/0x1e4
   __kasan_report+0x138/0x140
   kasan_report+0x44/0xdc
   __asan_load8+0x94/0xd0
   kcompactd+0x440/0x504
   kthread+0x1a4/0x1f0
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

At present kswapd/kcompactd_run() and kswapd/kcompactd_stop() are protected
by mem_hotplug_begin/done(), but without kcompactd(). There is no need to
involve memory hotplug lock in kcompactd(), so let's add a new mutex to
protect pgdat->kswapd accesses.

Also, because the kcompactd task will check the state of kswapd task, it's
better to call kcompactd_stop() before kswapd_stop() to reduce lock
conflicts.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comments]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220827111959.186838-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 640fa76228dd..262c4676b32c 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -1981,9 +1981,21 @@ static inline bool is_via_compact_memory(int order)
 	return order == -1;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Determine whether kswapd is (or recently was!) running on this node.
+ *
+ * pgdat_kswapd_lock() pins pgdat->kswapd, so a concurrent kswapd_stop() can't
+ * zero it.
+ */
 static bool kswapd_is_running(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 {
-	return pgdat->kswapd && task_is_running(pgdat->kswapd);
+	bool running;
+
+	pgdat_kswapd_lock(pgdat);
+	running = pgdat->kswapd && task_is_running(pgdat->kswapd);
+	pgdat_kswapd_unlock(pgdat);
+
+	return running;
 }
 
 /*